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Accessible Seminary Reads for Lay Christians
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items I read a lot of books when I was getting my Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell. These are the best books I read that are accessible for all Christians (i.e. they contain little to no technical jargon or unexplained big theological words)
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Great for finding God in every day life! I love how she shows us the sacredness of our ordinary routines
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Esau McCaulley opens our eyes to reading Scripture from a Black perspective. He has sharp insights to the Bible combined with relevant application for today
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Amazing! Changed my view of listening, relationships, and effecting change in others’ lives
The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
Expands your idea of spiritual disciplines! Each discipline comes with a short intro and “how to”
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
an incandescent story of a fictional American minister. Robinson writes beautifully and her characters are so complex and real!
Gilead
a collection of MLK’s best sermons! A great way to round out your image of this inspiring man and preacher!
Strength to Love
Evangelism looks different in the postmodern world and Everts and Schaupp have insights into how to effectively share the good news in our postmodern world
I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus
Great for learning how to interact with, lead, guide, and care for diverse personalities in a church!
The Enneagram Goes to Church: Wisdom for Leadership, Worship, and Congregational Life
What does it mean to be holy in everyday life? How can we be holy? Bridges discusses answers to both these questions! This book is helpful in figuring out what is our role and what is God’s role in our journey of becoming holier
The Pursuit of Holiness
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a fascinating account of a period in church history that most of us know little about! Changed my view of the early church!
The Global Church: The First Eight Centuries From Pentecost Through the Rise of Islam
The concept of “being with” one another is at the heart of the Trinity and Wells makes the case that it should be at the heart of our ministry too!
Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church
updated evangelism methods to reach our post-modern culture! Chan is a great storyteller and he brings his missional and cultural insights to help us all tell our neighbors about the greatest Story ever told
Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable|Paperback
Great insights into ministry, especially pastoral ministry, that you can’t learn from seminary. My one caveat is that it’s written primarily to male pastors and at least one has gone astray since the time of publication but there’s still a lot to be ...
15 Things Seminary Couldn't Teach Me
we are what we love! And what we worship shapes what we love. Smith helps us see how our culture, worship, and habits shape what we love. My disclaimer is I’m still reading this one!
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit